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  • Sneezing is even more disgusting with high-speed cameras

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    02.11.2016

    New, super-gross research out of MIT is shedding new insights into what happens when we sneeze. Researchers from the university used high-speed photography to record 100 healthy volunteers right at the moment they sneezed. Turns out, the sticky fluid flies out of our mouths, not as a spray, but as a sheet. Ew. Then it pops, like a balloon, and the snotty filaments remaining then in turn break up into the fine mist we're familiar with. Double ew.